Man with 28 arrests charged again with burglary: South Euclid Police Blotter

BURGLARY, CEDAR ROAD: A man left his apartment at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 6 to go on a job interview and when he did, a neighbor asked him where he was going and how long he’d be gone.

When the man returned from his interview, his girlfriend told him the neighbor, a man, 57, had been in their apartment. The complainant noticed a video game and TV had been moved in his kitchen. The girlfriend, who was sleeping when her boyfriend left, was awakened by the neighbor, walked into the kitchen and saw him holding the video game. The neighbor told the girlfriend he was in the apartment because the door had been unlocked and he needed to ask her boyfriend to help him hang an oil painting.

Police questioned the neighbor and arrested him for burglary. It was found his record showed 28 arrests, including those for aggravated menacing, aggravated burglary, criminal trespassing, felonious assault, gross sexual imposition, resisting arrest and other, lesser offenses.

HARASSING COMMUNICATION, FRANCIS COURT: A man visited his mother, 83, and found she was upset at receiving calls at a rate of about every 45 minutes since Jan. 2 from someone trying to sell continuing education. The woman has a difficult time reaching the phone and when she does before her answering machine picks up, she is hung up upon.

The man used the star-69 function on his mother’s phone to learn the number from which the calls were coming. That number, according to AT&T, is not an actual, working number. The man and AT&T are working to resolve the situation.

DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION, FENWICK ROAD: An officer spotted a woman at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 5 driving a car that had illegally tinted windows. A traffic stop was made and it was learned the driver had three suspensions on her license. The woman, 24, of Cleveland, was cited for the three suspensions and released. Her car was turned over to a legal driver.

DISTURBANCE, MAYFIELD ROAD: A drunken man sat at 9:10 p.m. in the Dunkin’ Donuts shop. The man fell out of his chair and, when he did so, the chair was projected into a wall. An employee thought the man threw the chair and called police. When speaking with officers, the man’s speech was slurred.

Police cited the suspect, 47 and homeless, for disorderly conduct and possession of an open container of alcohol.

FRAUD, EASTWAY ROAD: A woman learned from an ATM on Jan. 4 her debit card had been deactivated. The following day, she inquired of the bank as to why this happened and was told the card had been fraudulently used to make several purchases.

In all, purchases totaling $3,393 had been rung up in White Plains and Yonkers, N.Y., and in Edison, N.J. The purchases were made between Dec. 31 and Jan. 4. The woman never lost possession of her card.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, LANCASTER ROAD: A man, 60, called police at 3:39 a.m. Jan. 7 stating there were four men and a woman trying to break into his house and their car was parked next to his in his driveway.

Police arrived to find no one outside the home and no car in the driveway, save for one on the back of the drive covered with freshly fallen snow. There were no footprints in the snow around the house or driveway.

Officers spoke to the man who called them and he seemed nervous and shaken. The man was confused as he told police there had been people standing right outside his home. He said they had looked in his window and stolen his handgun. Further, the man said the intruders had ruined his backyard, although officers saw only undisturbed snow.

Inside the home, officers learned from the man’s father he had been acting strangely that day and he, indeed, had a gun which he frequently holds as he walks around the house.

It was determined the man, who had been in alcohol treatment in March 2012, needs evaluation and he was taken to the hospital. A search of the home led police to find the gun, loaded, in a laundry basket.

BURGLARY, WEST ANDERSON ROAD: Someone entered a vacant HUD-owned home through a doggie door in the back of the home and proceeded to steal copper pipes from the basement. The theft was estimated at $2,000.

A HUD representative noticed the theft on Dec. 31, but HUD did not call police until Jan. 3.

DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION, WARRENSVILLE CENTER ROAD: An officer on patrol at 6 p.m. Jan. 4 saw a car stuck in a snow bank. A check of the car’s registration showed its owner had a suspended license.

Further, a check of the woman driving the car, 19, of Cleveland Heights, revealed she, too, had a suspended license. The driver was cited for driving with a suspended license.

BREAKING AND ENTERING, FREEMONT ROAD: Police were dispatched at 8 p.m. Jan. 4 to a vacant home because its front door was open. Inside, officers found someone stole copper pipes from the basement and from under the kitchen sink.

The theft was valued at $1,500.

HARASSING COMMUNICATION, VERONA ROAD: Beginning Dec. 27, a woman, 29, began receiving calls and text messages from her boyfriend accusing her of cheating on him. When the woman went home on the first night after receiving the communications, she found her computer and Xbox missing from her home. In addition, pictures that had adorned the house were found ripped.

The woman said she would not press charges if her items were returned.

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